Complications Arise When Wedding Politics and Marriage

It’s OK to marry a liberal, but if your partner is an atheist, watch out.

The Pew Research Center released a study today that showed how political polarization affects the way government works in the U.S. and how it affects our personal lives.

Most Americans are comfortable with political differences inside their households. However, when you ask people who considers themselves consistently conservative how they would feel if an immediate family member married a Democrat, 30% said they’d be unhappy. Twenty-three percent of consistent liberals said they’d be unhappy if an immediate family member were to marry a Republican.